The book is a little tiny thing, but so insightful. It caused a huge to do in England because it provided the English with a view of how others viewed them. "You will have more difficulty with some of the local dialects. It may comfort you to know that a farmer or villager from Cornwall very often cant' understand a farmer or villager in Yorkshire." and "There are housewives in aprons and youngsters in knee pants in Britain who have lived through more high explosives in air raids than many soldiers saw in first class barrages in the last war."

It begins with the observation that you, American GI, are coming from a country that was at war. Once you got on the boat, you were in a war zone.